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title: The wedding festivities lasted for eight days, and the dogs sat at t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wedding festivities lasted for eight days, and the dogs sat at table and made eyes at everyone. Who acts: wedding festivities, dogs. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 146

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The wedding festivities lasted for eight days, and the dogs sat at table and made eyes at everyone.

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**Who acts:** wedding festivities, dogs · **What happens:** last, sit, make · **To what, where:** table, eyes, everyone

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding festivities, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:46:146
# text = The wedding festivities lasted for eight days, and the dogs sat at table and made eyes at everyone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | the wedding festivities |  |  |  | day |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the dogs |  |  | table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | the dogs *not said here* | eyes |  | everyone |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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